Active Contours
Subtitle: The Application of Techniques from Graphics, Vision, Control Theory and Statistics to Visual Tracking of Shapes in Motion
By: by Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
Contributors: Isard, Michael
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781447115571; 9781447115557
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition; Computer vision; Computer graphics; Computer science
Description: Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry. In particular it is concerned with understanding, specifying and learning prior models of varying strength and applying them to dynamic contours. Its aim is to develop and analyse these modelling tools in depth and within a consistent framework.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction and Applications; title: Active Shape Models; title: Geometric Fundamentals: Spline Curves. Shape-Space Models. Image Processing Techniques for Feature Location. Fitting Spline Templates. Pose Recovery; title: Probabilistic Modelling: Probabilistic Models of Shape. Dynamical Models. Dynamic Contour Tracking. Learning Motion. Non-Gaussian Models and Random Sampling Algorithms; title: Mathematical Background; title: Stochastic Dynamical Systems; title: Filtering and Random Sampling; title: Glossary of Notations; title: Bibliography; title: Author Index; title: Subject Index.